Independence man charged with sex crimes

The Jackson County prosecutor's office says in a release that Morgan Lee Littleton is charged in Jackson County Circuit Court with four counts of first-degree statutory sodomy, two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and four counts of second-degree domestic assault.

Court records say Littleton is accused of having deviate sexual intercourse with the 12-year-old child on numerous occasions in the past six months and that some of the assaults had been videotaped.